Jetty Quotes

• Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Natural, Structure

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• Universe is a giant wave and mankind needs a giant breakwater: The science! It is the best jetty we ever have!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Giants, Needs

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• Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.

  Ralph Steadman

  Rotten, Privilege, Stink

  "The Joke's Over". Book by Ralph Steadman, 2006.

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• I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

  Wilbur Smith

  Beach, Hunting, Islands

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• My first reaction to finding Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in a book was, Wow, what a great photograph! I could not believe that someone had gone to so much trouble just to end up with a picture.

  Vik Muniz

  Believe, Book, Gone

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• Uses are always much broader than functions, and usually far less contentious. The word function carries overtones of purpose andpropriety, of concern with why something was developed rather than with how it has actually been found useful. The function of automobiles is to transport people and objects, but they are used for a variety of other purposes--as homes, offices, bedrooms, henhouses, jetties, breakwaters, even offensive weapons.

  Frank Smith

  Home, Office, People

  Frank Smith (2014). “To Think: In Language, Learning and Education”, p.108, Routledge

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